SAS Enterprise Reporter

Opening the warehouse

for business

Neil Hutton
Strategy Group
SAS Europe
The Databases that run
modern businesses are
complex entities
Extracting the data

Compl
exity

User designed
What is
The Enterprise Reporter?
• End user reporting tool for Windows95 and NT
• MS Office look and feel
• Win95 logo certification
• Client/server
• Support for Multi-dimensional data
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What problems does it
solve?
• To answer ad-hoc business queries
• Relieve the pressure on IT
The Benefits for the user

• Opens up the data warehouse

• Lower technical skill entry point
• Faster response
• Different levels of usage
• Suitable for a large number of users
The Benefits for IT

• More time for strategic issues

• Canned reports
• Happy users
How is this achieved?

• Mapping complexities with a Metabase

• MS Office look and feel
• Report Gallery
The Metabase

• The technicians’ distilled knowledge of the

database
• Aliasing field names and table names
• Defining joins
• Defining the database in business terms
 MS Office look and feel
• Windows GUI standard
• Office Suites
• Integrated solutions

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Report Gallery
• Quick access to most used reports
• Learning tool
• Saved report templates using virtual data
• Can be modified and extended
• A Wizard to guide the user
Demonstration
Summary

• It opens the data warehouse to a broader

audience
• It relieves the pressure on IT
• General release in August 1997
Questions and Answers
Meta Group, Aaron Zornes
(June 96)

"Best of breed appears to be an attractive approach for

DataWarehousing. In reality, however, the integration
of multiple "best-of-breed" products results in a very
expensive situation for most companies. The best
practice solution - the most cost-effective solution - is
to get as much of the Data Warehouse as you can from
one vendor and then fill in the holes with other
products."
Meta Group, Aaron Zornes
(June 96)

"Best-of-breed solutions can be very misleading. Best-

of breed is not necessarily the best solution when it
comes to cost effectiveness and the ability to gain
control of a situation. Many of us have tried to integrate
best-of-breed products. SAS has a number of best-of-
breed products and provides very good end-to-end
integration between them."